From the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) press release via Newswise: People of all ages and cultures gesture while speaking, some much more noticeably than others. But is gesturing uniquely tied to speech, or is…
From the Bangor University press release via EurekAlert!: Psychologists at Bangor University believe that they have glimpsed for the first time, a process that takes place deep within our unconscious brain, where primal reactions interact…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release via EurekAlert!: People who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever directly communicating with them,…
From the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience press release via AlphaGalileo: They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Fortunately, this is not always true. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN-KNAW) have…
From the University of Kansas press release: There’s new evidence that our minds thrive away from it all. Research conducted at the University of Kansas concludes that people from all walks of life show startling…
From the University of Bristol press release: A key protein, which may be activated to protect nerve cells from damage during heart failure or epileptic seizure, has been found to regulate the transfer of information…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: If you trust your feelings you are better able to predict future events—from the weather to the stock market, according to a new study…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: One cup or two faces? What we believe we see in one of the most famous optical illusions changes in a split second; and so does the path that the…
From the Wellcome Trust press release: People with autism have a greater than normal capacity for processing information even from rapid presentations and are better able to detect information defined as ‘critical’, according to a…
From the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory press release via EurekAlert!: The next time you set a trap for that rat running around in your basement, here’s something to consider: you are going up against an…